I have been very fortunate over the years to live in dead quiet neighbourhoods. After ten o'clock you would think we were the only people left on earth. Well boy has that changed!
Now, between 4:30 am and five, the Quality Foods trucks start going by. The loading dock for the store is three houses up and they can only do one truck at a time. A big semi loaded with food will grind its way by, brakes hissing and gears changing. Then when it gets to QF, it slowly backs into the bay, beep beep beep beep beep. Then the next truck comes and parks in front of the house closest to QF and idles, then the next one then the next one until there is one parked in front of our house. Meanwhile there is an awful lot of metal banging and men shouting as they get their ramps properly placed etc... That goes on til about noon, but slowing down around 9.
And we have a number of people that go to work around 6 am. They drive pickups...which heavy objects have to be thrown into the back....crash bang slam. They start their vehicles at least five minutes before they load them. So the engine starts by remote fob, runs, and then beep beep...locks the truck while they let it warm up.
And there is a constant barking Rottweiler two doors down. He is pretty good in the night now but the minute there is movement on the street, he starts barking.
More often than not too unfortunately, we are right under the medical flight helicopter flight path. And its really loud! I am pretty sure its a Sikorsky and they thunder!
But I truly love it here. Covid, and the fear of it, has been penetrating my dreams of late. And here on our tiny corner of Vancouver Island we are pretty safe. The numbers of active cases are so low on the Island. Although two of our schools have had an infected person in them.
And I can see that this covid thing is going to be the new normal (I hate that expression)(shovel list) for a long time...too long to sit at home, cowering in the corner. Now I don't mean one should go crazy, rip their clothes off and run down main street screaming. (we have already had that happen here twice in the last couple of months). But time to take a risk or two.
That being said, I am going to do two things next week. I am going to Vancouver to April's for a week and I am going to go get my hair done. I can't wait! I have so missed seeing my girls in Vancouver and they are super careful. I shall put a mask on and ride the ferry upstairs outside. I am pretty excited at the prospect of going somewhere, and seeing people! Its time to carefully start living with this covid thing.
Well, gotta bounce. Stay healthy and noodling. TTYL
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